Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-08-29

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The meetings Saturday afternoon aud
evening were well attended. rs well MS
ones of interest. In the evening Rev
H. Brink preached. Rev. D. C
Martin followed with an exhOrtatlon
full of enthusiasm, closing by asking
seekers to come to the altar for
forgiveness of sin and TO seek new life
Several came forward.
AT the love feast meeting on Sunday
morning at s a.. M, were great many
people. 1t was one of blessing; each one
who spoke expressed himself or herself as
being at peace with God and glorious
hope of immortality.
At 10 Il. M. as previously announced,
the Rev. DR.. J. G. W Coke, representa-
tive of the Sunday School Union and
Tact society of the northwest, preached
a grand sermon from the words:
What think We of Christi Whose son Is he?
Mat 22-42
The three questions arising from this
question are: us the bible divine2'
Is Christ divine?" rs religion divne?"
II Christ is divine, the bible is divine and
religion is divine. This question is one
of vast Importance The way we know
men is by what they say and do, we
know Christ in the same manner His
sayings are all found IN the four gospels
Matthew. Mark. Luke and John.
Truths are established by agreement of
witnesses testifying to the principal
points, and their disagreement on minor
points. On the ma or points the gospels
agree; hence the proof OF the Dlvin
ity. Christ did a great many other
things which were not recorded 1t
is a fact that he did did not en-
poy his Divine power for a physical
benefit for himself The witnesses both
of friends and enemies establish the fact
find any fault in Him The humility
OF Christ is shown by him being Jew
the place of his birth; also that he was a
abnrer. In speaking of the dignity of
labor, the speaker did not think that the
teachings of Christ and the church were
antagonisiic to the Knights of Labor, as
some think; not so; but that Christ, as
the head of the church aud his teachings,
rs well as the church itself, encourages
labor; but as an organization, some of its
WAYS were not in harmony with the
teachings of the church. The greater
portion of His time here on earth was
spent in labor; hence laborers should not
be ashamed of labor. The time of His
teachings was short; neither did He cal!
any influential person as a disciple, but
chose them from the lowly. Neither did
He leave any writings of His own. He
only wrote once, and that was in the
sand. The speaker closed with the
following questions and their respective
answers: What do angels think of Him?
What do redeemed saints think of Him.
and what does the church militant think
of Him? The doctor talked for
an hour and half. holding the
attention of the audience with
his deep thought and stirring truths
After the doctor had finished, Presiding
Elder p A Cool gave an exhortation in
behalf of the worn out preachers" fol-
lowed with collection which amounted
to S7l SO
Rev J A Riason preached at $50 a.
M yesterday from the text found in the
Gospel of John, 9th chapter, 9th Pnd 9Th
verses
Rev. DIR. Coke spoke in the afternoon
yesterday of Sunday school union, of its
work and the prospect for the future
work of the union. Our fields of miss
sions are not only in heather lands be-
yond the sea but that in the south and
west, and in our own country there is a
L., AL 60 ha ,Nf hn h.
number of Sunday schools of NJ E.
church is 26. 900; part of these are self
supper ting and are helping others, which
are not self supporting. There is only
about an average of one cent per member
of all the members of the nj. E. church.
The meetings yesterday afternoon and
evening were of spiritual feasts. After
Rev. j. B. Ollie had preached in the
evening from the scripture found in
Matthew 9th chapter. 33d verse, an in>
vItation was given to come to Christ A
good many came.
The children a meeting was led yester-
day afternoon by Rev. W. J. Minimum.
There were interesting speeches from
Mrs NJ. E. Mumma. of Port Byron, and
Rev. G. W. Peregoy, of Woodruff. There
were large number of children present.
A goodly number of the children spoke
OF their love for Jesus.
The young ladies meeting, old people,
meeting and young mems meeting were
all well attended yesterday afternoon, and
all were meetings of feasting spiritually
The sacramento services at the altar
sacrament of the Lords supper was ad-
miulstered to over three hundred people,
of whom twenty -three were ministers.
There were on the grounds yesterday
over four thousand people. The gate
receipts for Saturday and Sunday
amounted to 5000 The number of peo-
pie fed at the boarding tent on Sunday
| was about five huudred--some better than
week ago.
The police had some little difficulty
| with some parties on the outskirts of the
camp on Saturday evening and Sunday
Some of the tent holders took dowr
their tents this morning aud returned t.
| their respective homes.
Tonight will he the last service of the
meetings 1t will close with a march
around the camp and a shaking of the
hand
| The weather could not have been muct
better than it WAS yesterday Tor tb'
meetings; it was not too cold, neither
was it TOO warm.
Rev Samuel CUTLERY of Hampton,
will preach this evening Mr. CUTLERY il
q very learned worker.
To Contractors.
| Am, 1897